Lucy Meadows

This page contains the available public information and many of the more significant links in respect of the death of Lucy Meadows. I do not endorse the content of all the links. My own post on her death is here and I did a BBC interview here (starts at 25:20).

Please note that this page is for information only; there is no evidence of a link between the press conduct/coverage of her transition and her death, and there are no confirmed reports as to the cause and relevant circumstances of her death.

I was lucky to have a supportive head, but I think I’d have done it here regardless as I couldn’t put it off any longer and I have family and financial commitments as well. The guidance I’ve had from the trans community has been generally sound and very much appreciated, and I’d like to be able to say I’ve given something back. I suppose the best way for me to do this would be to educate the people around me and children at school – I am a teacher after all!

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I know the press offered parents money if they could get a picture of me.

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I became pretty good at avoiding the press before Christmas. I live about a three-minute walk from school so they were parked outside my house as well as school. I’m just glad they didn’t realise I also have a back door. I was usually in school before the press arrived and stayed until late so I could avoid them going home.

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[M]any parents have been quite annoyed with the press, too, especially those that were trying to give positive comments but were turned away.

Guardian: “All she ever wanted, she told her friend in emails shared with the Guardian, “was to be me“, the person she always felt she was meant to be, a woman and not the man she had been born 32 years earlier.”

It is understood that Lucy submitted a PCC complaint in January; there is no public statement as to any outcome of that complaint.